Check out the STEM-TV Animated GIF Challenge page and galleries by clicking here, or look up on the top menu bar! I've added a bunch of great submissions, including some good-natured smack-talk from last year's hosts.

​UPDATE:Check out this ​amazing GIF, created by Salmaan at Harare International School (below). He used Cinema 4D to create this high resolution experiment. Fun, silly, or amazing: keep sending me your animated GIFs. Don't forget to share them on social media too!

The "Animated GIFs have evolved into a kind of ubiquitous ‘mini-cinema,’ entirely native to the personal computer and the World Wide Web. Almost anyone can make one and almost every browser will read them. They are the purest expression of the democratic web" - Sean Dockray - Distributed Gallery

​Promote ISSEA STEM 2K17 at your school and on social media! For example, create an animated GIF to ....

Promote the Festival (ISSEA STEM 2K17 - Coming April 2017!)

Promote a Particular STEM Event(ie. ISSEA Botball, coming soon!)

​Promote / Explain STEM generally

Promote YOUR STEM team! (Go Buffalos!)

We'll share them all on the ISSEA STEM Website! And you can share your favorites on Facebook, Twitter, GIPHY (or where-ever!) to promote the festival.

HOT TIP: There are lots of ways to create GIFs, but one of the easiest is touse the website GIPHY.com, which will convert still images and many popular video formats (less than 15 seconds only!) to a looping animated GIF automatically!

So, from NOW until April 1, submit your GIFs using the link below. All artists will get special recognition on the website, and at the festival, including a prize of unbelievable value!

Hello! We've posted a registration form for the 2017 ISSEA STEM Robot Sumo Invitational. Since this is an optional, fun, event, we need to register teams separately to figure out how many teams to expect and to schedule and plan accordingly. Your school may register as many teams as you want, but please let us know ASAP. (April 1 is the deadline, but sooner is better!)

Robot Sumo is a super-fun robot sport, run around the world with robots of all shapes and descriptions. Not familiar yet? Try You-tubing it!

Call for submissions!

The STEMTV information for 2017 has now been updated. This year, we're inviting you to "think big". We will still be celebrating excellence in student filmmaking, with the STEMTV categories you've come to know and love.

This year, however, we'd like to celebrate other forms of digital creativity as well! We'd like to expand the scope to celebrate the best technology-based projects from across ISSEA. Basically, anything that can be put on display, listened to, or shown via video is fair game. Think: coding projects, multimedia, 3D printing, student blogging, game design, DJ sets and more!

Philosophy

​Providing an arena for like-minded students to compete, collaborate, ​communicate, and demonstrate strengths in academic areas that are rarely celebrated.

Rationale

“Educating students in STEM subjects teach students how to think critically and how to solve problems — skills that can be used throughout life to help them get through tough times and take advantage of opportunities whenever they appear.”​STEPHEN F. DEANGELIS